Despite it being one of the rare occasions of being a rock benefit concert in the U.S. not being televised, Thursday night's (May 30th) Boston Strong benefit concert at Boston's TD Garden, raised the roof as well as sizable funds for bombing victims. Vintage Vinyl News reported that the show, which can be accessed via online streaming sites, featured mini-sets by such local heroes and Beantown friends as Aerosmith, Boston, the J. Geils Band, James Taylor and Carole King, Extreme, and Jimmy Buffet.

Aerosmith co-founder and lead guitarist Joe Perry told us that bottom line; Boston was, is, and always will be home for the band: "I mean, we live there -- we've always lived there. Y'know, we never had lapses of reason and moved to New York or L.A. I mean, we do a lot of work in both cities. I mean, we love both towns. I love New York, y'know, I like to record records there and stuff, but Boston's a great town to live in. We've stayed there over the years, and it's the best combination of cities. I mean, we certainly have our choice where we want to live and seen a lot of different places, y'know, so we decided to stay there."